<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Well, he certainly did do his best work in his <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">earlier</SPAN></SPAN> years and not his last year. Nonetheless, he still was never an atheist up until then<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>. Who knows what he thought in the last few days of life. Could of been an <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-1><SPAN>atheist</SPAN></SPAN>, or a Christian. </SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Chasuk <chasuk@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe@gmail.com>; viz <vision2020@moscow.com> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:32 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Vision2020] About Evidence<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>Concerning the question of Einstein's pantheism, consider that he wrote this:<BR><BR>"I believe in Spinoza's God who
reveals himself in the orderly harmony<BR>of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and<BR>actions of human beings."<BR><BR>And:<BR><BR>"A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part<BR>limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and<BR>feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical<BR>delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,<BR>restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few<BR>persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the<BR>prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living<BR>creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. The true value of a<BR>human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they<BR>have obtained liberation from the self. We shall require a<BR>substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive."<BR><BR>The latter extract was written in 1954, 24
years after the extract<BR>that you provided in which he wrote that, "I do not know if I can<BR>define myself as a Pantheist."<BR><BR>Apparently, he came to a decision in those intervening years, as the<BR>latter profession -- written shortly before he died -- is clearly<BR>pantheistic.<BR><BR>pan·the·ism<BR>noun /ˈpanTHēˌizəm/<BR><BR>the doctrine or belief that God is the universe and its phenomena<BR>(taken or conceived of as a whole) or the doctrine that regards the<BR>universe as a manifestation of God<BR><BR>Chas<BR><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>